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You Are Not A Gadget - A Manifesto (Paperback)
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You Are Not A Gadget - A Manifesto (Paperback)
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In You are Not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer
Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal
interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as
people. Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first
century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual
creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever
before... yet no one really had anything to say. Does this have to
be our future? Showing us the way to a future where individuals
mean more than machines, this is a searing manifesto against mass
mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of
the human. 'A provocative and sure-to-be-controversial book ...
Lucid, powerful and persuasive' The New York Times 'There is hardly
a page that does not contain some fascinating provocation' Guardian
'Short and frightening ... from a position of real knowledge and
insight' Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books 'Poetic and
prophetic, this could be the most important book of the year' The
Times Jaron Lanier is a philosopher and computer scientist who has
spent his career pushing the transformative power of modern
technology to its limits. From coining the term 'Virtual Reality'
and creating the world's first immersive avatars to developing
cutting-edge medical imaging and surgical techniques, Lanier is one
of the premier designers and engineers at work today. A musician
with a collection of over 700 instruments, he has been recognised
by Encyclopedia Britannica (but certainly not Wikipedia) as one of
history's greatest inventors and named one of the top one hundred
public intellectuals in the world by Prospect and Foreign Policy.
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